The heavy rain mainly affected Greenwich, Lewisham, Peckham and Sydenham.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” lang=”en-gb”><p>'Biblical downpours' in south London according to <a href=”https://twitter.com/LondonFire”>@LondonFire</a> – tbf, Lewisham is under water… pic <a href=”https://twitter.com/MissABellerin”>@MissABellerin</a> <a href=”http://t.co/PbDpjeJJDa”>pic.twitter.com/PbDpjeJJDa</a></p>— Josh Barrie (@JoshBythesea) <a href=”https://twitter.com/JoshBythesea/statuses/499920539461623808″>August 14, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” lang=”en-gb”><p>Lewisham flash flood <a href=”http://t.co/l7TFOWXZ1u”>pic.twitter.com/l7TFOWXZ1u</a></p>— Ben Stein (@Ben_Spice) <a href=”https://twitter.com/Ben_Spice/statuses/499909588104540162″>August 14, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
The London Fire Brigade described the downpour as ‘biblical’.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” lang=”en-gb”><p>Here's how we dealt with the biblical downpour yesterday including houses in <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rainham?src=hash”>#Rainham</a> that were struck by lightning <a href=”http://t.co/fNYVVJpH0d”>http://t.co/fNYVVJpH0d</a></p>— London Fire Brigade (@LondonFire) <a href=”https://twitter.com/LondonFire/statuses/500218484911902720″>August 15, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
And it’s set to turn really cold next week according to the Met Office, with the tail-end of Hurricane Bertha, set to blow the cold from Scandinavia down to Britain, with temperatures in some parts of the country dropping to as low as 2C.
Lovely.
Bye, bye summer…
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